Wimbledon Championships 2017: Manic Monday awaits Wimbledon

Djokovic takes a 1-0 career edge over unseeded Adrian Mannarino of France into his clash, with that win coming at Wimbledon in straight sets in the second round past year.

Paire has struggled on grass courts throughout his career, winning just over 50 per cent of his matches.

Murray, despite entering the tournament with so-so form, dropped a set to Fabio Fognini in the third-round on Friday but has been playing great tennis at SW19. “I’m still pumped to get out there regardless of whether there’s other British players in the tournament or not”, he said.

“I think it’s just getting beaten up”. I’m really pleased with that.

After a Sunday break, the Wimbledon 2017 will be back in action as the big four – Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic – will play their respective last 16 matches while Victoria Azarenka takes on Simona Haelp. So it’s never easy to know if he’s injured. I met Manny Pacquiao, but it was just to say “hi” and take a picture with him when I was in the Philippines.

Lendl, nevertheless, does not appear concerned about Murray’s fitness, though the coach agreed that it was often important for a player to be able to play through pain.

However, victory continued the Scot’s remarkable record against players from across the Channel – it is close to a decade and 28 matches since he lost to a Frenchman at a Grand Slam. The seventh-seeded Croat beat Roberto Bautista Agut 6-2, 6-2, 6-2.

Second seed Djokovic overcame a rusty beginning against the unpredictable Ernests Gulbis 6-4, 6-1, 7-6 on Saturday to set up a fourth-round encounter against Frenchman Adrian Mannarino.

It will be familiar territory to Murray. In fact, to see him in between shots, crossing the baseline with the rolling limp of a auto park attendant in a Billy Connolly gag, you’d think he’d smashed through it at 100 miles an hour.

However, his two-handed backhand is a major weapon.

He broke Murray twice in a row in the first set, which ended up going to a tiebreak that the top seed won comfortably.

Top billing, though? Well, its four years since we had two Britons on singles duty in week two so Murray and Johanna Konta can share as the hype starts swirling in earnest about them possibly becoming the first home pair since Fred Perry and Dorothy Round in 1934 to win in the same year. The final score was 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 15-13 in favor of Muller.

Raonic battled back from two sets to one down to deny rising German 10th seed Alexander Zverev his maiden grand slam quarter-final entry with a 4-6 7-5 4-6 7-4 6-1 escape. He provided stiffer opposition for the British No1 than expected, forcing the first set to a tie-break and prompting no end of self-flagellation from Murray, who could be seen angrily remonstrating with himself and the occupants of his box as early as the second game. He’s playing at a high level.

The Croatian is overdue a big breakthrough at Wimbledon having pushed both Djokovic and Roger Federer all the way in previous years, missing match points against the Swiss last year. Paire threatened to take the first set when he led 4-2 but was eventually put off by Murray’s advances to the net and hitting winners.

In what has been the best match of the tournament so far, two-time champion Rafael Nadal was defeated by an awesome Gilles Muller 6-3 6-4 3-6 4-6 15-13 in 4 hours and 47 minutes of thrilling tennis!